Ludia, ICOSANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 507 



LUDIA. Juss. 

 Calyx many-parted. Corol none. Germ superior, one- 

 superior, one-celled, many-seeded, attachment parietal. 

 Berrrj few or many-seeded. Embryo centrifugal, and 

 furnished with a perisjDerm. 



1. L. spinosa. R. 



Arboreous. Trunk and large branches armed with ra- 

 mous spines. Leaves oblong, remotely obtuse-serrulate, 

 smooth, three-nerved. 



A native of Sumatra ; from thence plants were sent by 

 the late Dr. Charles Campbell in 1804, to the Botanic 

 garden at Calcutta, where they began to blossom in May 

 1812, and ripened their fruit in September. 



Compare with spina spinarnm. Rumph. Amb. 7. p. 30. 

 1. 19. f. 1. I suspect they may be the same, and more so 

 as his tree is a native of Java, and mine of Sumatra, 

 neighbouring Islands. 



Trunk erect in trees eight years old, fully as thick as 

 a man's leg and with the larger branches dreadfully 

 armed with long, strong, straight, compound spines, as 

 in Flacoutia cataphracta. Young shoots smooth and 

 coloured, whole height of those young trees from fifteen 

 to twenty feet. Leaves alternate, bifarious, short-pe- 

 tioled, oblong, very remotely and obtusely serrulate, ob- 

 tusely acuminate, having both sides smooth, and the one 

 upper lucid, triple-nerved, from four to six inches long, 

 and from two to three broad, while young beautifully 

 coloured. Petioles short, channelled. Stipules minute, 

 triangular. Racemes axillary, solitary, simple, shorter 

 than the leaves, few-flowered. Flowers small ; pale 

 yellow, pedicelled, many of them male hermaphrodite. 

 Bractes small, and solitary, under the base of each pedi- 

 cel, and some round the base of the raceme also. Flow- 



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